Snail attack

Annushka

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I have had my 29 gallon Eclipse for about 1.5 months. During the first 3 weeks it was relatively ok, 2 guramies died, but other 5 are doing well, then I started finding snails, fishing a couple out every day. Yesterday I found a lot of them, and today I counted about 20! What do I do with them? (other problems later).
Thank you for help!
 
Most likely, the other problems are related to the growing snail population. Clean more, feed less.
 
And snails will die off?

Little nasty succers hide between gravel, on the plants, crevices of the rocks, glass. I just hand pick them, but will any fish eat them or maybe some liquid treatment? I don't feel like hunting, personally. Sadly, my husband is the one who originated this whole aquarium thing, and now it's all on my to take fish to a doctor, find fixes, etc.
 
The best method IMO is to just methodically pick off any snails you see whenever you get the chance. Thats how I completely wiped out the snail population in my 20 gallon.
 
there are some fish species that will eat snails, like loaches, but i would NOT recommend getting any fish just because it will make your job easier unless you're willing to care for them in the long haul. i have albino dojo loaches and dwarf puffers (in separate tanks, of course) and they are so good at it that I've never had a snail problem and have started breeding snails to supplement their diet of flakes, a variety of frozen foods, bottom feeder wafers, Daphnia, and live worms.

you can try hand-picking them, altho they make such little eggs that those might be around, too. i've heard that putting a piece of lettuce in there and waiting for it to accumulate snails and then removing it, is a good way.

however, snails don't really hurt anything. they clean up leftovers and graze on algae. are you worried about their increasing your bioload?
 
Get a plate and put it into the water, lay a piece of lettuce or other greenery on it over night. In the AM the snails should be all over it eatting, and you can just remove the plate. this will get rid of a large portion of them. Save for a complete teardown and re-build you wont get rid of them all. I suguest you try Orion girls method to keep thier population down. For more information, go to the articles section at the top of the forum listing and read the "snail" article by daveedka
 
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